So I broke an another player's leg...

Diesel

Diesel

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and I'm feeling pretty gutted about it.

It was in a 7-a-side game yesterday, I was making a clearance and he tried to tackle me as I did but got their late and took the full brunt of my follow through. It was a sickening crunch and I think I might have broken my foot, but I've been in contact with the opposing manager and the lad has broken his leg.

I feel really bad, even though I wasn't at fault at all. He is only 17 and is facing quite some time on the sidelines. :(
 
Diesel said:
and I'm feeling pretty gutted about it.

It was in a 7-a-side game yesterday, I was making a clearance and he tried to tackle me as I did but got their late and took the full brunt of my follow through. It was a sickening crunch and I think I might have broken my foot, but I've been in contact with the opposing manager and the lad has broken his leg.

I feel really bad, even though I wasn't at fault at all. He is only 17 and is facing quite some time on the sidelines. :(
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That's gutting. :(

Have you managed to speak to him yet? I'd probably leave it a day or two more for him to come to terms with the injury and then get in touch with him if you can. Maybe even visit him and take him some magazines or something to cure the boredom.
 
What a horrible thing to have happened, as above see if you can visit him at some point, I'm sure he would know there is no malice involved.

I had a similar thing happen to me many years ago which resulted in me breaking my foot (I took a volley shot and followed through with full power to the other players underside of his boots with the top of my foot), still to do this day it gives me hassle on a daily basis with the lump in my foot and it was almost 10 years ago it happened.

Get your foot checked out if you haven't already.
 
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Very unfortunate, but don't beat yourself up about it, it isn't like you karate kicked him, it was a regular run of play break that happens sometimes :(
 
It sounds like just one of those unlucky accidents that are inevitably going to happen at some point, it's not like you maliciously went in 2 footed on a tackle.

Maybe go and see him in the hospital if you're feeling bad about it.
 
I don't know what I can say to compound the guilt, I just hope this hasn't fractured your friendship with what sounds like a cracking fellow.









:(

But seriously, that situation is terrible for all involved, offer him your apologies and try and get past it, if you were completely innocent there shouldn't be too much on your conscience
 
I broke both a guy's legs once, wasn't even booked for the challenge as it wasn't dirty, just unfortunate.

Touch wood it hasn't ever happened to me, but being realistic there is always, always a chance that something like that could happen whenever anyone is playing football. I've been unlucky enough to be in and around several breaks now, the noise isn't something that ever leaves you.

You can console yourself that you did nothing wrong, hopefully the lad will make a full recovery.
 
I broke someones ankle with a volley and also had a finger broken which is still crooked to this day playing with work mates. These things happen and he should know it's just one of those things.
 
Memory is hazy now, it was over a decade. The lasting memory was the noise and his scream :(

It was two different things that did it though, his leg under him buckled completely, and I snapped his leg above the ankle on my follow-through after clearing the ball. He was coming in from my side and just behind me.

I felt **** for ages, but there was nothing at all in it or that I could have done about it. I stopped playing for a while after and just went to watch, but got back into it once I left College. Did his tib and fib on his right (clean break) and a compound fracture just below his knee on his left which was his trailing leg.

Can't imagine he played again, not with both done. One of our lads at footy did tib and fib right in front of me 2 years ago, and has been back playing for a year. He had a metal rod through the centre of his bone.
 
I've injured a few players in the course of the game and within the rules (broken ankle, and ankle ligaments), it's just unfortunate when it happens. I've also been on the receiving end of a broken nose and broken cheekbone this season just gone, which incidently weren't within the rules as one was violent conduct and the other a VERY late challenge for a header.
 
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